Tag: lincoln
member name: David K.
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February 17, 2008 08:46 AM EST --
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln
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December 09, 2007 08:16 AM EST --
"I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion."
Abraham Lincoln, From the July 31, 1846 . . .
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December 13, 2007 07:20 AM EST --
"I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have . . .
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December 15, 2007 06:57 AM EST --
If I knew what brand of whiskey he [General Grant] drinks, I would send a barrel or so to some other generals.
Abraham Lincoln, Remark at Cabinet meeting, 1864
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December 16, 2007 08:21 AM EST --
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
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December 17, 2007 07:09 AM EST --
"Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief -- resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, . . .
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December 19, 2007 07:10 AM EST --
"I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service -- the United States Constitution; and that, as such, I am responsible to them."
--From . . .
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December 20, 2007 07:20 AM EST --
"Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare . . .
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December 22, 2007 07:51 AM EST --
The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in . . .
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December 23, 2007 09:14 AM EST --
No matter how much cats fight there always seem to be plenty of Kittens
Abraham Lincoln - ( Speaking about Marriage)
NOTE: The Abraham Lincoln Quote of the Day will be . . .
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December 29, 2007 08:01 AM EST --
If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.
Abraham Lincoln
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December 31, 2007 06:53 AM EST --
"The division of a State is dreaded as a precedent. But a measure made expedient by a war, is no precedent for times of peace. It is said that the admission of West-Virginia, is secession, and . . .
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January 01, 2008 07:54 AM EST --
"Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?"
Abraham Lincoln
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January 02, 2008 07:54 AM EST --
"I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has."
Abraham Lincoln, August 22, . . .
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January 03, 2008 07:56 AM EST --
"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house . . .
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January 04, 2008 07:35 AM EST --
"I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain."
Abraham Lincoln, February 16, 1861, "Remarks . . .
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January 05, 2008 06:56 AM EST --
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
Abraham Lincoln
Seems appropriate given we're now into the Presidential primary season.
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January 07, 2008 07:25 AM EST --
"There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless . . .
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January 08, 2008 07:08 AM EST --
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln
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January 10, 2008 07:43 AM EST --
"I have found that when one is embarrassed, usually the shortest way to get through with it is to quit talking about it or thinking about it, and go at something else."
Abraham Lincoln . . .
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